- Jim Dine, five themes, by Graham W.J. Beal with contributions by Robert Creeley, Jim Dine, and Martin Friedman
- Hopper drawing, Carter E. Foster ; with contributions by Daniel S. Palmer [and others]
- Close portraits, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis : exhibition, [edited] by Lisa Lyons and Martin Friedman
- American watercolor and Winslow Homer, by Lloyd Goodrich
- Morris Louis : the veil cycle, an exhibition organized by Walker Art Center
- Robert Motherwell: the complete prints 1940-1991, catalogue raisonne, Siri Engberg, Joan Banach
- Picasso from the Musée Picasso, Paris, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 10 February through 30 March 1980, Dominique Bozo [and others]
- Knife, fork, spoon;, the story of our primary eating implements and the development of their form., Text by D.S. Defenbacher, design and typography by William M. Friedman, design assistance by Carol Kottke, research by Arthur A. Carrara, Drawings by Alonzo Hauser, photos, by John Szarkowski, cataloging by Huldah Curl
- George Segal, sculptures, by Martin Friedman and Graham W. J. Beal ; with commentaries by George Segal
- New art of Argentina, an exhibition organized by Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, and the Visual Arts Center, Instituto Torcuato di Tella, Buenos Aires
- Claes Oldenburg, the Sixties, edited by Achim Hochdörfer with Barbara Schröder
- The Frozen image, Scandinavian photography, introductory essays by Martin Friedman, with contributions by Henning Bender ... [et al.]